sie

From Middle English sien, from Old English sīgan (“to sink, descend”), from Proto-Germanic *sīganą, *sīhwaną (“to strain, drop”), from Proto-Indo-European *seyk- (“to pour, strain”). Cognate with Dutch zijgen (“to filter”), German seihen (“to strain, sieve”), Icelandic síga (“to lower”).

• sigh
• sey, sye (Scotland)

• IPA^(key): /saɪ/
• Rhymes: -aɪ

sie (third-person singular simple present sies, present participle sying, simple past and past participle sied)

1. (intransitive) To sink; fall; drop.
2. (intransitive) To fall, as in a swoon; faint.
3. (intransitive, dialectal) To drop, as water; trickle.
4. (transitive) To sift.
5. (transitive, dialectal) To strain, as milk; filter.

sie (plural sies)

1. A drop.

• sile

• Homophones: c, cee, sea, see

sie (third person singular, gender-neutral, nominative case, accusative sir, possessive adjective hir, possessive noun hirs, reflexive hirself)

1. (rare) Gender-neutral subject pronoun, grammatically equivalent to the gendered pronouns he and she, or singular they.
   • 1993 September 24, Alex Martelli, "punishment vs ethics (was Re: Discipline my daughters)", in alt.sex.bondage, Usenet:

     If the child is about the intellectual equal of the parent, sie will eventually start holding hir own in discussions, […]

   • 2010 September 16, Jessica Freely, Amaranth and Ash‎, La Vergne: Lightning Source, →ISBN, page 101:

     "You must be Ash," sie said, hir voice a shade deeper than Amaranth's.

   • 2011 May 19, Ken Wickham, The Other Genders: Androgyne, Genderqueer, Non-Binary Gender Variant‎, CreateSpace, →ISBN, page 7:

     Sie may feel that hir actual identity of hir gender is supposed to be both/neither male or female, outside of gender, third gender, beyond gender, absence of gender, mixing gender, changing gender, or all genders.

   • 2011 August 16, Petra Kuppers, Disability Culture and Community Performance: Find a Strange and Twisted Shape‎, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, LCCN 2011012058, LCC PN1590.H36 K87 2011, page 18:

     When I asked hir about hir preferred self-identification in this scene, sie offered me this language, 'sie sharply performs the hotness of teasing all the audience from the edge-space of androgyny.'

• shi

• see Appendix:English third-person singular pronouns

• -ies, -ise, EIS, EIs, ESI, I'se, ies, sei

sie

1. water

• Comparative Chibchan Phonology (1981)

sie (stem siu-)

1. (personal, dialectal, including Kven) you (singular; in archaic English: thou).

• sinä (standard Finnish)
• sä (colloquial)
• sää (dialectal)

• eis, esi-, ies, sei

• (standard) IPA^(key): /ziː/

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• Rhymes: -iː

• (colloquially in unstressed position) IPA^(key): /zə/

From Old High German siu; cognate with Gothic 𐍃𐌹 (si) and Old English sēo (“that one (f.)”).

sie f

1. she

   Ist sie noch krank?

   Is she still sick?

   Das ist meine Katze. Sie heißt Lili.

   This is my cat. Her name is Lili.

2. it (when the object/article/thing/animal etc., referred to, is feminine (die))

   Scheint die Sonne noch? Nein, sie ist schon runtergegangen.

   Is the sun still shining? No, it has already gone down.

¹Often capitalized, especially in letters

• The genitive case ihrer is more and more rarely used in modern German.
• While the genitive of personal pronouns does express ownership, it must not be confused with possessive pronouns. While possessive pronouns such as ihr are put in front of the noun they relate to and follow the inflection rules of adjectives, the genitive form of personal pronouns has only one form, which is not further inflected. Additionally, personal pronouns in the genitive can be put after the word they relate to.

From Old High German sie (masculine plural), sio (feminine plural), siu (neuter plural).

• -se (enclitic; colloquial)

sie pl

1. they; them

¹Often capitalized, especially in letters

• In the colloquial speech of some areas, this pronoun is used only enclitically after a verb, as an ending /zə/. E.g. hamse, könnse. Stressed instances are replaced with the demonstrative pronoun die. This reflects a similar development for es/das.
• While the genitive of personal pronouns does express ownership, it must not be confused with possessive pronouns. While possessive pronouns such as ihr are put in front of the noun they relate to and follow the inflection rules of adjectives, the genitive form of a personal pronoun has only one form, which is not further inflected. Additionally, personal pronouns in the genitive can be put after the word they relate to.

• sei
• Eis

• sie in Duden online

• sii (Wiesemann spelling system)

From Old High German siu; cognate with Gothic 𐍃𐌹 (si) and Old English sēo (“that one (f.)”).

• IPA^(key): /siː/

sie

1. she

From Old High German sie (masculine plural), sio (feminine plural), siu (neuter plural).

• IPA^(key): /siː/

sie

1. they

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

sie

1. binding

sie

1. there

sie

(Stem: si-)

1. (personal) you (singular)

• sinä

• IPA^(key): /siə/, /si/

sie

1. Alternative form of si (both feminine singular and all plural)

• Stem vowel: ê⁴
  • IPA^(key): /siə/, /siɛ/

sie

1. Alternative form of sê.

• sia

sie m or f

1. she (accusative)
2. they

• Low German: se

• sieși

From Latin sibi.

sie

1. (rare) (to) himself/herself/itself/themselves (stressed reflexive-dative form of el, ea, ei and ele)

• sieși

• își (unstressed form)